Don't trust people. I don't know how to start. After watching this short film, I don’t know how to start writing about it. Polish director Slavomir Fabicki shot something that is not immediately understandable, but after twenty-five minutes the truth comes incomprehensibly and is superimposed in heavy layers. This is a masterpiece , only it is unlikely to be on the way with most viewers.
A little boy, a yard childhood, a misunderstanding from adults, a faithful dying dog. The world of thirteen-year-old Bartek is shown through negative film, which emphasizes the screaming pessimism of the heavy picture. Almost to the end of the session you do not understand what the director wants to convey to his audience. He collects situations from the life of a child, confuses, as if he only wants to show the unbearable conditions in poor Poland by the example of a weak man. What? What is it and why? After all, there are many other films on this topic, most holistically revealing all aspects.
The finale changes the seemingly almost meaningless short film. He cuts off the narrative, and the first question that comes to mind is, "Everything?" Soon, at the thought of why the younger brother shaking his head negatively, comes the same understanding, the message of Fabitsky, not heard by everyone. The mystery, the meaning of which lies on the surface, in our cruel, uncompromising reality.
People just can't be trusted.
Magnificent and bitter. Check it out.
9 out of 10